Communist Youth Union resumes activities after ban overturn

The Communist Youth Union, a small far-left group whose ban was recently overturned by a court, has officially resumed its activities, the ČTK news agency reported. The group held its re-constituent convention in Prague on Saturday, two months after a local court overturned a ban imposed on the group by the Czech Interior Ministry. Members of the Communist Youth Union said the group’s return was “a great victory for the communist movement in the Czech Republic”.

The Communist Youth Union formed in the early 1990s; by 2003 its agenda became so radical that the parliamentary Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia distanced itself from the group. The union openly called, among other things, for the removal of private ownership through revolutionary means. It was banned by the Czech Interior Ministry in 2006 but a court in Prague lifted the ban in January this year.